[Fedora-legal-list] Blurb for requesting upstreams to add license texts

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Sep 1 05:51:34 UTC 2010


Hello,

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#License_Text
Per these guidelines, packagers should ask upstreams to include license texts 
in tarballs in case they're not included.

I think it would be useful to have a document blurb targeted at upstreams that 
would document why this is necessary, how does it benefit them, and how to 
include the texts in case they have doubts or questions.  Packagers could then 
just give a link to that already when requesting addition of the license 
texts.   Could someone add such a thing to wiki, along with packager 
instructions how to use it/how to ask upstreams to include the license text?



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